¿Cómo sortear la brecha entre la oferta y la demanda de Inglés Académico en la Educación Superior? Reflexiones desde y para la Universidad Nacional de Río Negro.

Abstract

This research delves into the different possibilities of implementing the minimum contents of the Academic English subjects at Universidad Nacional de Río Negro, taking into account the specific needs of its students. On the one hand, it gathers information about the students’ profile, throughout sources and interviews to key informants. On the other hand, it carries out a survey of Academic English offers in Spanish speaking universities, analyzing them through a triangulation of different theories regarding foreign language learning and didactics and pedagogy at university. Taking into account the UNRN students’ profile, it seems indispensable to include these contents in the obligatory curricula, in order to democratize the access to knowledge and in this way decrease the inequalities existing in the territory. It is concluded, among other things, that the experiences that implement problem based methods allow the meaningful learning of the contents through its practical application, together with its integration to previous knowledge, and it also allows to capitalize on the heterogeneity of the group.